Davidson writes: "One of the many things that makes Donald Trump angry is
that Bernie Sanders does not seem to hold grudges. In recent speeches, Trump
has pointed to the information that has come out, through WikiLeaks'
disclosures of John Podesta's e-mails, about the Clinton team's attitude
toward Sanders during the primaries: the slights ('doofus'), the schemes
('where would you stick the knife?'), and the eye-rolling ('socialist
math')."
Bernie Sanders. (photo: AP)
Bernie Sanders's Hard Fight for Hillary Clinton
By Amy Davidson, The New Yorker
05 November 16
One of the many things that makes Donald Trump angry is that Bernie Sanders
does not seem to hold grudges. In recent speeches, Trump has pointed to the
information that has come out, through WikiLeaks' disclosures of John
Podesta's e-mails, about the Clinton team's attitude toward Sanders during
the primaries: the slights ("doofus"), the schemes ("where would you stick
the knife?"), and the eye-rolling ("socialist math"). Perhaps worst of
all-at least from Trump's point of view-was Donna Brazile's passing along of
debate questions. "Now, Bernie Sanders should be angry right? Shouldn't he
be angry?" Trump asked a crowd in Florida. He sounded a little bit
puzzled-he would be so mad.
The truth is that Bernie Sanders is very, very angry-at Donald Trump. He is
angry enough to have spent weeks travelling on behalf of Hillary Clinton,
speaking for her in union halls and arenas, to students and activists. When
he talks, he is entirely Bernie-"We are going to fight for that democracy;
we are not going to become an oligarchy"-and he hints strongly that he has
done some negotiating with her before getting on the stage, and will
continue to do so after, as he hopes, she is elected. When praising her
positions, he often says "Secretary Clinton has told me" or "Secretary
Clinton has promised," as though he knows that it might not work, with the
sort of swing audiences he is dispatched to persuade (students,
working-class voters), simply to declare that taking these stands is in her
nature. But he knows what he wants: for her to win. "This campaign is not a
personality contest," Sanders said near the beginning of a speech in
Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday night. "We're not voting for
high-school president. We're voting for the most powerful leader in the
entire world." He had been introduced by Pharrell Williams, the musician,
who was now sitting on the stage with Clinton herself, as if it were an
actual high-school election. Statements like that serve to remind Sanders's
supporters that they don't need to be charmed by Hillary Clinton-he is over
it, and they ought to be, too. But, if personality doesn't matter, the
person does.
"There are many, many differences between Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump,"
Sanders told the crowd. "But there is one that is very, very profound. Are
you ready for a very radical thought right now? I don't want anyone to
faint! I think we have some paramedics here"-"paramedics here" is, it turns
out, an excellent phrase for demonstrating a Brooklyn accent-"but I do want
to make this announcement. Are you ready for it?" The crowd indicated that
it was. "All right. Madam Secretary, you correct me if I'm wrong here; I
don't want to misspeak for you-Secretary Clinton believes in science!"
When the cheering had abated, Sanders continued, "I know I put her in a
difficult position-2016, to believe in science, a little bit dangerous-but
what the heck." He then referred to her "very specific ideas" for combatting
climate change, before turning to the mind of Donald Trump. "After years and
years of studying the issue from a scientific perspective-I'm joking, I'm
joking-he has concluded that climate change is a hoax emanating from China.
Now, why he chose China and not Mexico or some Muslim country, I don't
know."
That addendum, about Trump's depiction of Mexicans and Muslims, is a
reminder of why Sanders really isn't joking; nor does he think that Trump
is. One thing that Sanders saw, perhaps earlier than most people, is that
Trump is both serious and dangerous. And he knows, from time spent with his
own crowds, the strengths of the passions that Trump exploits when he talks
about political corruption. Sanders is clearly outraged that a billionaire
would try to be the spokesman for those grievances. It may also be that his
historical perspective, which may give him too narrow a view in some areas,
has left him distinctly well prepared to recognize the threat that Trump
poses. Sanders does not treat a wealthy bully sowing divisions among the
working class as a phenomenon entirely outside the tradition of our
country's politics-as the freak appearance of a buffoon. He does not look at
Trump and wonder how someone so crass and demagogic could ever have
disrupted the pageant of American society, which is and has always been
great.
"I disagree with Donald Trump on virtually all of his policy positions,"
Sanders said. "But what upsets me the most-what upsets me, it's beyond
disagreement-is we have struggled for so many years to overcome
discrimination, and he is running his campaign, the cornerstone of which is
bigotry. Now, as Americans we can disagree on many issues. But we have come
too far-too many people have gone to jail, and too many have died in the
struggle for equal rights. We are not going back to a bigoted society."
Since conceding defeat in the primaries, Sanders has been one of the real
champions of this campaign. He let his supporters yell at him and deride him
as a sellout in bleak delegate breakfasts at the Democratic National
Convention, in Philadelphia, as he endorsed Clinton and explained why they
needed to do the same. He made getting support for her his priority, putting
aside any subtle, undermining gestures that might have better preserved his
rebel-rock-star status. He has kept doing so despite other revelations in
the Podesta e-mails, ones that are not about him personally but about issues
that he believes in-for example, about money in politics, as exemplified by
the Clinton team's nurturing of donors. And he has earned the right to
negotiate hard on such issues in the future.
As Sanders finished his speech in Raleigh-"We have to do everything that we
can to elect Secretary Clinton!"-Clinton and Pharrell were on their feet,
cheering. "Wow!" Clinton said, when she took to the rostrum. "Whew! I gotta
say, after hearing from these two extraordinary men, I feel all fired up and
ready to go for the next five days!" She knew what it was like to run
against Sanders. Having him on her side was "a lot more fun." A few hours
later, Sanders was off on his own to Iowa. Trump is ahead in that state, in
the latest average of polls, by about two and a half points. Sanders had
three events scheduled for Friday-Cedar Falls, Iowa City, Davenport. On
Saturday, there would be more.
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Bernie Sanders's Hard Fight for Hillary Clinton
By Amy Davidson, The New Yorker
05 November 16
ne of the many things that makes Donald Trump angry is that Bernie Sanders
does not seem to hold grudges. In recent speeches, Trump has pointed to the
information that has come out, through WikiLeaks' disclosures of John
Podesta's e-mails, about the Clinton team's attitude toward Sanders during
the primaries: the slights ("doofus"), the schemes ("where would you stick
the knife?"), and the eye-rolling ("socialist math"). Perhaps worst of
all-at least from Trump's point of view-was Donna Brazile's passing along of
debate questions. "Now, Bernie Sanders should be angry right? Shouldn't he
be angry?" Trump asked a crowd in Florida. He sounded a little bit
puzzled-he would be so mad.
The truth is that Bernie Sanders is very, very angry-at Donald Trump. He is
angry enough to have spent weeks travelling on behalf of Hillary Clinton,
speaking for her in union halls and arenas, to students and activists. When
he talks, he is entirely Bernie-"We are going to fight for that democracy;
we are not going to become an oligarchy"-and he hints strongly that he has
done some negotiating with her before getting on the stage, and will
continue to do so after, as he hopes, she is elected. When praising her
positions, he often says "Secretary Clinton has told me" or "Secretary
Clinton has promised," as though he knows that it might not work, with the
sort of swing audiences he is dispatched to persuade (students,
working-class voters), simply to declare that taking these stands is in her
nature. But he knows what he wants: for her to win. "This campaign is not a
personality contest," Sanders said near the beginning of a speech in
Raleigh, North Carolina, on Thursday night. "We're not voting for
high-school president. We're voting for the most powerful leader in the
entire world." He had been introduced by Pharrell Williams, the musician,
who was now sitting on the stage with Clinton herself, as if it were an
actual high-school election. Statements like that serve to remind Sanders's
supporters that they don't need to be charmed by Hillary Clinton-he is over
it, and they ought to be, too. But, if personality doesn't matter, the
person does.
"There are many, many differences between Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump,"
Sanders told the crowd. "But there is one that is very, very profound. Are
you ready for a very radical thought right now? I don't want anyone to
faint! I think we have some paramedics here"-"paramedics here" is, it turns
out, an excellent phrase for demonstrating a Brooklyn accent-"but I do want
to make this announcement. Are you ready for it?" The crowd indicated that
it was. "All right. Madam Secretary, you correct me if I'm wrong here; I
don't want to misspeak for you-Secretary Clinton believes in science!"
When the cheering had abated, Sanders continued, "I know I put her in a
difficult position-2016, to believe in science, a little bit dangerous-but
what the heck." He then referred to her "very specific ideas" for combatting
climate change, before turning to the mind of Donald Trump. "After years and
years of studying the issue from a scientific perspective-I'm joking, I'm
joking-he has concluded that climate change is a hoax emanating from China.
Now, why he chose China and not Mexico or some Muslim country, I don't
know."
That addendum, about Trump's depiction of Mexicans and Muslims, is a
reminder of why Sanders really isn't joking; nor does he think that Trump
is. One thing that Sanders saw, perhaps earlier than most people, is that
Trump is both serious and dangerous. And he knows, from time spent with his
own crowds, the strengths of the passions that Trump exploits when he talks
about political corruption. Sanders is clearly outraged that a billionaire
would try to be the spokesman for those grievances. It may also be that his
historical perspective, which may give him too narrow a view in some areas,
has left him distinctly well prepared to recognize the threat that Trump
poses. Sanders does not treat a wealthy bully sowing divisions among the
working class as a phenomenon entirely outside the tradition of our
country's politics-as the freak appearance of a buffoon. He does not look at
Trump and wonder how someone so crass and demagogic could ever have
disrupted the pageant of American society, which is and has always been
great.
"I disagree with Donald Trump on virtually all of his policy positions,"
Sanders said. "But what upsets me the most-what upsets me, it's beyond
disagreement-is we have struggled for so many years to overcome
discrimination, and he is running his campaign, the cornerstone of which is
bigotry. Now, as Americans we can disagree on many issues. But we have come
too far-too many people have gone to jail, and too many have died in the
struggle for equal rights. We are not going back to a bigoted society."
Since conceding defeat in the primaries, Sanders has been one of the real
champions of this campaign. He let his supporters yell at him and deride him
as a sellout in bleak delegate breakfasts at the Democratic National
Convention, in Philadelphia, as he endorsed Clinton and explained why they
needed to do the same. He made getting support for her his priority, putting
aside any subtle, undermining gestures that might have better preserved his
rebel-rock-star status. He has kept doing so despite other revelations in
the Podesta e-mails, ones that are not about him personally but about issues
that he believes in-for example, about money in politics, as exemplified by
the Clinton team's nurturing of donors. And he has earned the right to
negotiate hard on such issues in the future.
As Sanders finished his speech in Raleigh-"We have to do everything that we
can to elect Secretary Clinton!"-Clinton and Pharrell were on their feet,
cheering. "Wow!" Clinton said, when she took to the rostrum. "Whew! I gotta
say, after hearing from these two extraordinary men, I feel all fired up and
ready to go for the next five days!" She knew what it was like to run
against Sanders. Having him on her side was "a lot more fun." A few hours
later, Sanders was off on his own to Iowa. Trump is ahead in that state, in
the latest average of polls, by about two and a half points. Sanders had
three events scheduled for Friday-Cedar Falls, Iowa City, Davenport. On
Saturday, there would be more.
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